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Lois Smith
Known for acting
Born November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Lois Arlene Smith (née Humbert; born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1955 drama film East of Eden, and later played supporting roles in a number of movies, including Five Easy Pieces (1970), Resurrection (1980), Fatal Attraction (1987), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Dead Man Walking, Twister (1996), Minority Report (2002), The Nice Guys (2016) and Lady Bird (2017).
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In 2017, Smith received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Saturn Award, and well as won Satellite Award. Smith also has had many roles on television, both daytime and prime time. She was regular cast member in the HBO horror drama True Blood, and well as received Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series nomination for The Americans.
Smith also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving two Tony Award nominations for originating the role of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1990) and for the role of Halie in a revival of Buried Child in 1996. She also starred in an acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful in 2005 for which she received an Obie Award for Best Actress, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Drama Desk Award. Smith is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
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Movies and TV shows
Law & OrderTV · 1990
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitTV · 1999
Grey's AnatomyTV · 2005
The BlacklistTV · 2013
Desperate HousewivesTV · 2004
Law & Order: Criminal IntentTV · 2001
FrasierTV · 1993
ERTV · 1994
Cold CaseTV · 2003
American ExperienceTV · 1988
True BloodTV · 2008
MomTV · 2013
Matinee TheaterTV · 1955
American PlayhouseTV · 1982
The AmericansTV · 2013
ElsbethTV · 2024
The PracticeTV · 1997
Law & Order: Organized CrimeTV · 2021
Touched by an AngelTV · 1994
Dr. KildareTV · 1961
Army WivesTV · 2007
Studio OneTV · 1948
Grace and FrankieTV · 2015
The EqualizerTV · 1985
YoungerTV · 2015
Robert Montgomery PresentsTV · 1950
Ray DonovanTV · 2013
Naked CityTV · 1958
Tales of the UnexpectedTV · 1979
Route 66TV · 1960
The DefendersTV · 1961
The AffairTV · 2014
Just Shoot Me!TV · 1997
Sneaky PeteTV · 2015
thirtysomethingTV · 1987
Minority ReportMovie · 2002
Gossip GirlTV · 2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunMovie · 2021
Spenser: For HireTV · 1985
ImpulseTV · 2018
Lady BirdMovie · 2017
The Nice GuysMovie · 2016
The United States Steel HourTV · 1953
East of EdenMovie · 1955
StartimeTV · 1959
TwisterMovie · 1996
Run All NightMovie · 2015
Fatal AttractionMovie · 1987
Falling DownMovie · 1993
On Becoming a God in Central FloridaTV · 2019
LAXTV · 2004
This FoolTV · 2022
Dead Man WalkingMovie · 1995
Midnight RunMovie · 1988
The HireTV · 2001
TeslaMovie · 2020
HollywoodlandMovie · 2006
Letter to LorettaTV · 1953
Good SportsTV · 1991
Fried Green TomatoesMovie · 1991
9JKLTV · 2017
The Odd Life of Timothy GreenMovie · 2012
Black WidowMovie · 1987
The PledgeMovie · 2001
Green CardMovie · 1990
How to Make an American QuiltMovie · 1995
Ruth & EricaTV · 2012
Larger Than LifeMovie · 1996
The UninvitedMovie · 2025
KillshotMovie · 2008
A Will of their OwnTV · 1998
Griffin & PhoenixMovie · 2006
Mack & RitaMovie · 2022
Uncle FrankMovie · 2020
Five Easy PiecesMovie · 1970
The EternalMovie · 1998
Rage of AngelsTV · 1983
The ComedianMovie · 2016
Showing UpMovie · 2014
Holy MatrimonyMovie · 1994
A Dog YearMovie · 2009
Please GiveMovie · 2010
Switched at BirthTV · 1991
Deadly MatrimonyMovie · 1992
Sweet LandMovie · 2005
Powder KegMovie · 2001
The Gettysburg AddressMovie · 2025
Marjorie PrimeMovie · 2017
The Laramie ProjectMovie · 2002
P.S.Movie · 2004
Diminished CapacityMovie · 2008
RecklessMovie · 1984
Red BetsyMovie · 2003
Eye of GodMovie · 1997
Coney IslandMovie · 1991
Four FriendsMovie · 1981
Next Stop, Greenwich VillageMovie · 1976
James Dean: Sense MemoriesMovie · 2005
The Grapes of WrathMovie · 1991
Up the SandboxMovie · 1972
ResurrectionMovie · 1980
Iron Jawed AngelsMovie · 2004
FoxesMovie · 1980
Hello Actors StudioMovie · 1988
TumbleweedsMovie · 1999
Strange Lady in TownMovie · 1955
The Execution of Raymond GrahamMovie · 1985
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma ToddMovie · 1991
TrumanMovie · 1995
Particular MenMovie · 1972
Turn the RiverMovie · 2008
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in AmericaMovie · 2020
TwistedMovie · 1985
A Foreign AffairMovie · 2003
The Donner PartyMovie · 1992
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightMovie · 1967
RoadieMovie · 2012
Hard PromisesMovie · 1992
SkylarkMovie · 1993
DoubletakeMovie · 1985